SF News $30 Million Campaign To Reduce Family Homelessness Enjoys Large Donation From Marc Benioff, Private Sector A program announced today whose aim is to curb the number of families experiencing homelessness will benefit from a private-public partnership that includes donations from number of tech companies and luminaries, from Zendesk
SF News Profiles Of The Final Nine Ghost Ship Fire Victims SFist is continuing to offer brief remembrances and obituaries as they're being collected from various news sources and friends. Here was the first group of eight, the second group of six, another seven,
SF News Photo Du Jour: Car Owner Leaves Ultimate Anti-Theft Note San Francisco, as you may have noticed from your own unfortunate experience or merely the trail of shattered glass on our sidewalks, is a godforsaken town where petty thieves and criminals will stop
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink RIP Smoking On El Rio Patio: Landlord Enforcing Ban, Says Bar San Francisco smokers may be an overall minority, but more often than not they're a well represented group on the back patio of El Rio. That space, a grotto behind the queer-leaning bar
SF News 'Silicon Valley' Star TJ Miller Arrested Following Altercation With Uber Driver Over Trump In a move that sounds more befitting of actor TJ Miller's character on Silicon Valley, the oafish Erlich Bachmann, Miller was arrested in Hollywood early this morning according to the venerable source of
SF News Should Muni Just Ignore People Who Sneak On Without Paying? Proof of fare? Who cares. An argument Wired is making in a piece using Muni data as evidence says that ignoring fare evaders on public transit is a virtue. Frankly, it's a virtue
SF News Proposed Fillmore And California Parklet/Arch Would Recall Similar Historic Structures Is it just me, or is there a bit of a parklet arms race going on these days? For some years, cafes and restaurants have been upping the ante in terms of their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bars To Avoid Like The Plague During Santacon On Saturday Because It's The Actual Plague Isn't it about time that San Francisco passed common sense Santacon laws? I'm talking, of course, about a complete ban. If you're blissfully unaware of the annual scourge, allow me to ruin your
SF News Confusion Over Oakland Warehouse Address And Complaints Blamed For Lack Of Inspection Despite a litany of complaints related to the Oakland warehouse known as the Ghost Ship that erupted in flames last Friday, killing 36 people, none of those complaints appears to have resulted in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Man Arrested On SFO Tarmac After Leading Officers On Chase Through Airport Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Some Mountain View residents strongly disapprove of a plan
SF News Station Names Should Indicate Geographic Location, Transit Officials Decide, Ruling Out Rose Pak Station Rejecting the Board of Supervisors' unanimous recommendation that the SFMTA name the Chinatown Central Subway station after Rose Pak, an idea some protesters begged the SFMTA Citizens' Advisory Council to ignore, transit officials
SF News Stanford Student Files Lawsuit Alleging University Allowed Sexual Predator To Remain On Campus In a complaint filed this week in US District Court in San Francisco, a current Stanford graduate student and former Stanford undergrad alleges she was assaulted by a male student who was allowed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ugh: Pauline's Pizza Is For Sale At this point, Sidney Weinstein, who turns 70 next October, is basically the "Pauline" of Pauline's Pizza. Her restaurant on Valencia near 14th, which she opened with her husband and his business partner
SF News Key Difference Between SF And Oakland Tenant Laws Keeps People In Illegal Units From Reporting Safety Issues In San Francisco, tenants in illegal units can call the Department of Building Inspection to report safety violations, allowing inspectors to enter their units while providing these tenants the peace of mind that
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Following the tragic fire of last week, we've set aside some of the many benefits and fundraisers for victims of the disaster that are happening across the bay, with a particular emphasis, naturally,
Arts & Entertainment Warriors' Klay Thompson Scores Absurd 60 Points In 29 Minutes Last night in a resounding 142-106 victory over the Pacers, Klay Thompson joined Wilt Chamberlain, Rick Barry, and Joe Fulks as the only Golden State players ever to score 60 points in a
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For The Film Adaptation Of Dave Eggers' 'The Circle' Starring Emma Watson Dave Eggers' dystopian 2013 novel The Circle, a timely take on TwitterFaceGoogle and **bong rip** the implications of, like, technology and mass surveillance, was a pretty good movie script and not even a
SF News Video: Oakland Warehouse Manager Derick Almena Confronted On 'Today' Show, Could Face Murder Charges "I'm only here to say one thing: I'm incredibly sorry and that everything that I did was to make this a stronger and more beautiful community and to bring people together." That wasn't
Arts & Entertainment SF Hamilton Pre-Sale Tickets Sell Out With 60K People Left Waiting In Queue Pre-sale tickets to see the hit musical Hamilton as it tours San Francisco were selling like legit Broadway tickets today: Entering a queue at 10 a.m., American Express cardholders vied online to
SF News Fire Under 880 In Oakland As Homeless Woman's Tent Ignited 880 in #oakland on #fire?! What the hell is going on lately? pic.twitter.com/u3rypsIc15— Ben Larson (@pitchtoben) December 5, 2016 Still grappling with the implications of Oakland's massive warehouse fire this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dominique Crenn Expands With Bar Crenn In Cow Hollow “I love beautiful, loungey wine bars,” Dominique Crenn tells the Chronicle, “I don't think there are many in San Francisco.” As some of the city's wine shops, many with their own bars, are
SF News All The Memorials And Relief Efforts For Victims Of The Oakland Warehouse Fire A growing memorial in Oakland. As the names of those identified are released people are coming here to mourn their friends pic.twitter.com/RtRfUE8T6G— Melanie Woodrow (@MelanieWoodrow) December 5, 2016 Before the
SF News Profiles Of Eight People Who Died In The Oakland Warehouse Fire Before crews suspended their search this morning for victims of the deadly fire at the Oakland artists' collective known as Ghost Ship over safety concerns relating to a "potentially collapsing exterior wall" in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Uber Loses $2 Billion A Year, Report Claims, As Passengers Pay Just 41% Of Ride Costs Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Most people know that Uber has been losing lots
Arts & Entertainment Eight Narrowly Rejected Themes For Local Tech Company Holiday Parties A photo posted by Connie (@conniec) on Dec 5, 2015 at 8:41am PST Everyone recalls last season's glut of Great Gatsby-themed tech company holiday parties: Ignoring talk of a tech bubble, Facebook,
